--- title: The "tiny Napoleon" idea grew from British cartoons that mocked him,… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: The "tiny Napoleon" idea grew from British cartoons that mocked him, from French inches being longer than English ones, and from his nickname "the little corporal" (a corporal is a low army rank), which was a friendly name, not a measurement. Who acts: Napoleon idea, British cartoons, French inches, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Kings, queens and emperors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/) / 6 # Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 6 The "tiny Napoleon" idea grew from British cartoons that mocked him, from French inches being longer than English ones, and from his nickname "the little corporal" (a corporal is a low army rank), which was a friendly name, not a measurement. **Who acts:** Napoleon idea, British cartoons, French inches, corporal, low army rank, idea · **What happens:** grow, mock, be, nickname · **To what, where:** idea, low army rank, friendly name This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Napoleon idea, British cartoons, French inches, corporal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:6 # text = The "tiny Napoleon" idea grew from British cartoons that mocked him, from French inches being longer than English ones, and from his nickname "the little corporal" (a corporal is a low army rank), which was a friendly name, not a measurement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Napoleon Napoleon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 mocked mock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 cop _ _ 19 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 acl _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 nickname nickname NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 corporal corporal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 corporal corporal NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 rank rank NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the Napoleon idea | | | | | from British cartoons and French inches and idea's nickname | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from cartoon=Patient | | 2 | **mock** | past | British cartoons and French inches and idea's nickname | idea | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is** | gerund | French inches *not said here* | | | | | than English ones; long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a corporal | a low army rank and a friendly name and a measurement | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | a low army rank and a friendly name and a measurement | a friendly name | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **nickname** | | idea | | | | | | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:6`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kings, queens and emperors, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/5/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)